With the financial support of the Teaching Excellence Project sponsored by The Ministry of Education, the courses of general education have obtained the opportunity to make progress. This article is intended to share the teaching experiences and the learning outcomes of an innovative historical course. Utilizing lots of visual teaching resources and integrating information literacy into the content of the course, the authors have set the goal to nurture the freshman's autonomous learning attitude. On the whole, the students have developed their ability to reconstruct the historical significance via the teaching strategy of concept mapping in the first-year's implementation process under the Teaching Excellence Project.